RESTORATION ECOLOGY, ESRM 473

WINTER 2008

This is the syllabus for the last time the class was taught in 2008. This year's syllabus will be posted before the start of classes in Autumn 2009. The emphasis will be on restoration in different ecosystem types, so many of last year's lectures on ecosystems will remain intact and new lectures will be added..

INSTRUCTOR: KERN EWING, Merrill Hall Room 31, CUH, 543-4426, kern@u.washington.edu

T.A. : Alaine Sommargren, asomm@u.washington.edu

TEXTS: Not required, but good sources:Landscape Restoration Handbook, 2^nd. Ed. Harker et. al. / Handbook of Ecological Restoration, Volume 2, Restoration in Practice, Perrow and Davy

SYLLABUS

(Note Saturday Field Trips)

			Reference	Outline
Jan 7		Introduction: Functional Restoration. Ecosystem Geography	USFS1 USFS2	Outline
Jan 9		Functional Restoration (continued)	Terrestrial Vegetation Walter Klimadiagramme
Jan 11		Genetics of restoration	UC Davis Linhart Lande Knapp Lacy Maser Reinartz Sprugel	Outline
Jan 12		Saturday morning field trip to Union Bay Natural Area and parking lot E-5 restoration site
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		Group membership will be assigned during second week.
Jan 14		Invasive Species: Their nature and control in restoration projects	IPM TNC	Outline
Jan 16		Elements of a restoration project.	Stevens	Outline
Jan18		Plant selection.	Hartman USDA KingCo WSU 4th Corner Sound Nurseries WNPS Nurseries Native Nurseries	Outline
Jan 21		HOLIDAY
Jan 23		Managing Succession		Outline
Jan 25		Prairies and Grasslands		Outline
Jan 26		All day Saturday field trip to the Glacial Heritage prairie restoration site south of Olympia
Jan 28		Oak woodland	USFS SilvicsNA	Outline
Jan 30		Freshwater wetlands	Stevens1 Stevens2 Cowardin	Outline
Feb 1		Coastal wetlands	Campbell R. Sweetwater	Outline
Feb 4		Assessments of previous projects and proposal for what needs to be done to them: due on peer review board on web
Feb 4		Review for first exam
Feb 6		First Examination
Feb 8	Guest lecture	Eelgrass Beds		Outline
Feb 11		Reviews of the proposals of two other groups are due on the peer review board.
Feb 11		Kelp		Outline
Feb 13		Arctic systems		Outline Case Histories
Feb 15		Alpine / High elevation sites		Outline
Feb 18		HOLIDAY
Feb 20		Arid lands		Outline
Feb 22		Thornscrub	Ewing and Best, 2004 Sonoran tropical deciduous forest Sonoran thornscrub Desert photo gallery	Outline
Feb 25		Oak savanna		Outline
Feb 27		Riparian restoration	Klamath Overview	Outline
Feb 29		Tropical moist forest		Outline
Mar 3		Tropical dry forest		Outline
Mar 5		Restoring for old growth characteristics	Massachusetts Ontario Southeast Pacific Northwest Southwest	Outline
Mar 7		River restoration	Instream Structures	Outline
Mar 10		Freshwater tidal systems		Outline
Mar 12		Review for second exam
Mar 14		Second examination